The English Renaissance

Identity and Representationin Elizabethan England

€ 68.15

An account of the effect of the European Renaissance on English literature, art and politics. Sheds new light on the link between the English Reformation and the English Renaissance. Shows how the English governing elite used continental developments to create a distinctive Elizabethan ideology and identity.

Taal / Language : English

Inhoudsopgave: Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. The Reception of Italian Literary Culture: Motives and Dynamics.

2. Wyatt, Surrey, and the Onset of English Petrarchism.

3. Elizabethan Petrarchism and the Protestant Location of Self.

4. Ethic and Politic Considerations: Spenser, Sidney, and the Uses of Italianate Pastoral.

5. Epic and the Formation of National Identity: Ariosto, Tasso, and The Faerie Queene.

6. Appraising The Seeming Truths of the Times: the Italianate Plays of Shakespeare.